The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . d to theContinental Congress, but declined to serve; andwas chosen one of the first United States Senatorsfrom Virginia, refusing also to act in this then retired to his home on the Potomac,where he resided till his death, which occurredOct. 17, 1792. His statue is one of the groupwhich surrounds the statue of Washington in frontof the state capitol at Richmond, Virginia. MASON, James Murray, an American publi-cist, grandson of the preceding; born in FairfaxCounty, Virginia, Nov. 3, 1798; educat
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . d to theContinental Congress, but declined to serve; andwas chosen one of the first United States Senatorsfrom Virginia, refusing also to act in this then retired to his home on the Potomac,where he resided till his death, which occurredOct. 17, 1792. His statue is one of the groupwhich surrounds the statue of Washington in frontof the state capitol at Richmond, Virginia. MASON, James Murray, an American publi-cist, grandson of the preceding; born in FairfaxCounty, Virginia, Nov. 3, 1798; educated at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and at William andMary College, and admitted to the bar in 1820,He served many years in the Virginia House ofDelegates,and sat in Congress as a Democrat from1837 to 1839. From 1847 to i86i he sat in the Uni-ted States Senate from Virginia. For a long timehe was chairman of the Senate committee on for-eign relations. He was an earnest advocate ofslavery, author of the fugitive slave law, and aleader in the secession movement. In the autumn MASON 43. JAMES M. MASON. fruitless. Returningthe close of the war, of 1861 he was appointed with John Slidell as com-missioner from the Confederate States to Eng-land. He was capturedNovember 8th on boardthe English steamerTrent, by Captain Wilkes,of the United States war-vessel San/aciiito,ixnA re-moved to Fort Warren,in Boston Harbor, wherehe remained a prisoneruntil Jan. i, 1S62, when,in response to a form-• al demand by the British, government, he was re-leased. He then pro-ceeded on his mission toEngland, which provedto the United States athe died, near Alexandria,Virginia, April 28, 1871. MASON, Jeremiah, an American public man,born in Lebanon, Connecticut, April 27, graduating at Yale he studied law, and in1791 was admitted to the New Hampshire began the practice of law at Westmoreland,and in 1797 removed to Portsmouth. In 1802 hebecame attorney-general of the state. In 1807Daniel
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